With less than a month to go before the 4 November local government elections, Cilliers Brink, the DA’s mayoral candidate for Tshwane and the city’s former mayor, sits down with Gabriel Makin in the studio. They start with the campaign on the ground and the new News24/SABI poll that puts the DA first in Tshwane on 32%, and why polls are a snapshot, not a prediction.

Brink sets out his three scenarios for after the vote, from an outright majority to a coalition he can trust, and explains why the next chance to change the city will only come in 2031. He walks through his five pledges for the capital: fire the corrupt; crime-fighting technology; private partnerships for electricity and water; putting dormant municipal assets to work; and clean, safe neighbourhoods.

Gabriel asks about the fight to reinstate city manager Johan Mettler, ActionSA’s role in the council, the parties that sided with the ANC on the VAT increase, the Madlanga Commission, the SAMWU strike, and whether this election marks the unravelling of the ANC. They end on a question about whether a metro nine times the size of Singapore can be governed from one office.